The new-look government can lift the labour market by giving employers greater confidence in the UK’s growth prospects, according to the latest Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) JobsOutlook survey of UK employers.
Exceptional apprentice technicians progress to September’s national final following inaugural qualifiers
Economic inactivity linked to long-term health conditions has now reached 2.8 million people in the UK, costing the country an estimated £212 billion per year in lost productivity, reduced tax revenue and increased welfare spending. Within this picture, young professionals and new starters are emerging as the most v...
One of the strange things about operational resilience is that organisations often discuss it as though it is primarily about systems.
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition 857: 25th July 2026. Will Number 10 North Be Genuinely Pioneering, New System-Wide Thinking, or Is It Just Close to Home?
RECORD numbers of school leavers are taking their first steps towards the future at Coleg Cambria after enrolling on its expanded Jobs Growth Wales+ summer school.
Students from South Korea gained insight into the UK’s healthcare, emergency services and public sector organisations during a week-long educational visit hosted by Burton and South Derbyshire College (BSDC).
A student from NPTC Group of Colleges is making impressive progress on the national and international basketball stage after taking up the sport just over two years ago.
New UK report points to practical application of AI and critical human skills as the bridge between higher education and AI-enabled work
FE leaders are not short of priorities. Funding pressures, curriculum reform, skills gaps, and meeting diverse learner needs all demand attention, so the instinct can often be to treat sustainability more as one item on an already long and growing list. That’s especially true of the environmental footprint of AI, a...
UK employees took an average of 9.4 days of sickness absence last year, according to the CIPD. That’s up from 7.8 days in 2023 and 5.8 before the pandemic, fuelling a prolonged conversation that business leaders have been having about rising absence and its impact on national productivity.
Across the country, clean energy projects are falling behind schedule. Sometimes it’s planning disputes. Other times, it’s budget pressures. But the challenge that often goes unspoken is that we don’t have the people who make projects move. Not just engineers and technicians, but data analysts, project managers, com...
